Here’s where KB and I will write, read, relax, yoga, wine, and dine for the next two weeks… The cabin! (Solar powered, drain sink but no running water, funky but functional bedding, pots and [...]
AK 2010, Day 3: Driving into the Night KB and I headed to Fairbanks today, 350 miles north of Anchorage. We’ve got her sister’s 8-cylinder Chevy pickup, a cooler full of salmon, bulk dry goods, a [...]
I wake up early and it is sunny. I do not know it yet but this is the 28th day. All the Alaskans say it. The 28th day. I walk to New Sagaya’s city market and pick up the paper to solve the [...]
AK 2010, Day 1: It begins with bags that are too heavy, some fees, some shuffling around. It is followed by a delay on the tarmac; further delay on different tarmac. Hello, Detroit. Then there [...]
Alaska bound! 1 REI pack = 50 pounds, exactly 1 portable office = 25 pounds, plus breakfast 1 plane ticket + 1 pair hiking boots + an insatiable penchant for the written word = 6 weeks in The [...]
I don’t often identify with the word “patriotic” but that’s how I feel when I listen to someone like Lyle Lovett. Consider his song titled “If I Had a Boat,” which begins with these lines: If I [...]
I’ve been going down to the lake after sunset, letting its quiet sloshing against the sandy shores ready me for this next transition. I have always been a dependable person. But glimpse my inner [...]
Check out my latest short-short, “Paddy the Albino,” published on Electric Literature’s blog, The Outlet. This story went live today, then got picked up by Fiction Daily, which will publish it [...]
It’s one week to departure for The Last Frontier and the Brooks Range is officially out. KB and I will have to backpack through the caribou migration a different year, when an early, cold fall is [...]
In the course of one week their responses roll in: No from The Sun. No from Ploughshares. No from Serving House Journal. No from the Lorian Hemingway Contest. Yes from Ox-Box Residency Program [...]